Rhoda's POV
I sat on the edge of the bed, my body numb and my mind filled with different emotions I couldn't control
The room felt suffocating yet eerily empty.
The same place that I thought I was going to be able to accept as a place I can syay forever and I wouldn't leave.
Yet he made me leave and he made me come back.
My fingers dug into the bedsheet as I tried to process Lucian's words.
“I told your father you were cheating because I needed you home”
The confession rang in my ears lower than the wind that howled outside, louder than my heartbeat, and even louder than the heart-wrenching pain in my heart
My father called me shameful. A disgrace.
And all of it, every ounce of pain, the humiliation, the heartbreak had been caused by Lucian.
The man I had promised nothing to
